Tax levy; limitations; when certified. Proceeds of tax levy; how credited. Borrowing of money in anticipation of the collection of special tax. Emergency act, to take effect immediately. SECTION 5. Thereupon the taxing authorities of said subdivision shall have power to levy a tax on the tax list of the subdivision in the amount named in said petition which shall not exceed the deficiency certified under section 2 of this act, and shall not exceed a sum equal to three mills on the tax duplicate of the subdivision, and said levy shall be certified before May 20, 1925 to the county auditor of the county in which the subdivision is located. The county auditor shall place said special tax on the tax list of the subdivision for the year 1924. Said tax shall be outside of all limitations on the tax rate now prescribed by law. Said special tax so levied shall be spread upon the county auditor's books for the year 1924, and shall all be collected during the period fixed by law for the collection of the last half of the 1924 taxes. The special tax so levied shall become a lien on the real estate on the date of the certification to the county auditor and not prior thereto. SECTION 6. The proceeds of such special tax levy shall be credited to the proper funds of the subdivision in the several accounts in which deficiencies exist, in accordance with the respective amounts of such deficiencies as found by the taxing authorities of the subdivision, and shall then be deemed appropriated and made available for expenditure for the purposes with respect to which said deficiencies exist. Any tax levied in accordance with this act shall be counted as part of the nine and one-half mills required by the provisions of section 7595-1 of the General Code to be levied as a condition of participation in the state educational equalization fund in the fiscal year 1924-1925. . SECTION 7. In anticipation of the collection of said special tax, but not before the taxing authorities have certified to the county auditor said tax in accordance with section 5 of this act, the boards of education of any school district or the taxing authorities of any municipality may borrow money and issue certificates of indebtedness therefor, but no loan shall be made to exceed the amount of said tax. The sum so anticipated shall be deemed appropriated for the payment of such certificates at maturity. The certificates shall not run beyond September 30th, 1925, nor bear a greater rate of interest than six per cent, and shall not be sold for less than par, with the accrued interest. SECTION 8. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. The reasons for such necessity lie in facts which two-thirds of all the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly have considered, found and determined and which are separately set forth herein as follows: There are a great many municipalities and school districts which are unable to carry on their necessary activities with the funds derived from taxation and all other sources of revenue and if authority is not vested in said subdivision to obtain the necessary funds This act is not permanent na with which to function, the peace, health and safety of the community will be endangered. Legislation necessary to of a general and determine the facts pertaining to a deficiency and certifying the same to the auditor and the collection of the same in June, 1925, is absolutely essential to the municipalities and school districts. Therefore this act shall go into immeAttorney General. diate effect. ture and re quires no sectional number. C. C. CRABBE, HARRY D. SILVER, Filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus, Ohio, on the 11th day of February, A. D. 1925. 2B THAD H. BROWN, Secretary of State. [House Bill No. 4.] AN ACT To amend section 486-8 of the General Code, relative to positions Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 486-8 of the General Code be amended to read as follows: Sec. 486-8. The civil service of the state of Ohio and Classes defined. the several counties, cities and city school districts thereof shall be divided into the unclassified service and the class ified service. (a) The unclassified service shall comprise the fol- Unclassified lowing positions, which shall not be included in the classi- service. fied service, and which shall be exempt from all examinations required in this act. 1. All officers elected by popular vote or persons appointed to fill vacancies in such offices. 2. All election officers and the employes and clerks. of persons appointed by boards of deputy supervisors and inspectors of elections. 3. The members of all boards and commissions and heads of principal departments, boards and commissions appointed by the governor or by and with his consent; and the members of all boards and commissions and all heads of departments appointed by the mayor, or if there be no mayor such other similar chief appointing authority of any city or city school district. Provided, however, that nothing contained in this act shall exempt the chiefs of Classified service. police departments and chiefs of fire departments of municipalities from the competitive classified service as provided in this act. 4. The members of county or district licensing boards or commissions, and boards of revision and assistant asses sors. 5. All officers and employes elected or appointed by either or both branches of the general assembly, and such employes of the city council as are engaged in legislative duties. 6. All commissioned, non-commissioned officers and enlisted men in the military service of the state including military appointees in the offices of the adjutant general. 7. All presidents, directors, superintendents, principals, deans, assistant deans, instructors, teachers and such employes as are engaged in educational or research duties connected with the public school system, college and universities; and the library staff of any library in the state supported wholly or in part at public expense. 8. Three secretaries, assistants or clerks and one personal stenographer for each of the elective state officers; and two secretaries, assistants or clerks and one personal stenographer for other elective officers and each of the principal appointive executive officers, boards or commissions, except civil service commissions, authorized by law to appoint such secretary, assistant or clerk and stenographer. 9. The deputies of elective or principal executive officers authorized by law to act for and in the place of their principals and holding a fiduciary relation to such principals. 10. Bailiffs, constables, official stenographers and commissioners of courts of record, and such officers and employes of courts of record as the commission may find it impracticable to determine their fitness by competitive examination. 11. Assistants to the attorney-general, special counsel appointed or employed by the attorney-general, assistants to county prosecuting attorneys and assistants to city solicitors. 12. Such teachers and employes in the agricultural experiment stations; such teachers in the benevolent, penal or reformatory institutions of the state; such student employes in normal schools; colleges and universities of the state; and such unskilled labor positions as the state commission or any municipal commission may find it impracticable to include in the competitive classified service; provided that such exemptions shall be by order of the commission duly entered on the record of the commission with the reasons for each such exemption. (b) The classified service shall comprise all persons in the employ of the state, the several counties, cities and city school districts thereof, not specifically included in the unclassified service, to be designated as the competitive class and the unskilled labor class. he Sectional umbers in this ct are in conormity to the eneral Code. !. C. CRABBE, Attorney 1. The competitive class shall include all positions and employments now existing or hereafter created in the state, the counties, cities and city school districts thereof, for which it is practicable to determine the merit and fitness of applicants by competitive examinations. Appointments shall be made to, or employment shall be given in, all positions in the competitive class that are not filled by promotion, reinstatement, transfer or reduction, as provided in this act, and the rules of the commission, by appointment from those certified to the appointing officer in accordance with the provisions of this act. 2. The unskilled labor class shall include ordinary unskilled laborers. Vacancies in the labor class shall be filled by appointment from lists of applicants registered by the commission. The commission shall in its rules require an applicant for registration in the labor class to furnish such evidence or take such tests as it may deem proper with respect to age, residence, physical condition, ability to labor, honesty, sobriety, industry, capacity and experience in the work or employment for which he applies. Laborers who fulfill the requirements shall be placed on the eligible list for the kind of labor or employment sought and preference shall be given in employment in accordance with the rating received from such evidence or in such tests. Upon the request of an appointing officer, stating the kind of labor needed, the pay and probable length of employment, and the number to be employed, the commission shall certify from the highest on the list, double the number to be employed, from which the appointing officer shall appoint the number actually needed for the particular work. In the event of more than one applicant receiving the same rating, priority in time of application shall determine the order in which their names shall be certified for appointment. SECTION 2. That original section 486-8 of the General Code be and the same is hereby repealed. HARRY D. SILVER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. General. President of the Senate. Passed Feb. 10, 1925. Approved February 28th, 1925. VIC DONAHEY, Governor. Filed in the office of the Secretary of State, at Colum bus, Ohio, on the 2nd day of March, A. D. 1925. 3B THAD H. BROWN, Secretary of State. [House Bill No. 110.] AN ACT To amend section 1655 of the General Code relating to the failure or neglect to support minors. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION 1. That section 1655 of the General Code be amended to read as follows: Sec. 1655. Whoever is charged by law with the care, support, maintenance or education of a minor under the age of eighteen years, and is able to support or contribute toward the support or education of such minor, fails, neglects or refuses so to do, or who abandons such minor, or who unlawfully beats, injures, or otherwise ill treats such minor, or causes or allows him or her to engage in common begging, or whoever, being the father of an illegitimate child under the age of sixteen years and able to support or contribute toward the support of such child, fails, neglects or refuses so to do, upon complaint filed in the juvenile court, as provided in this chapter, shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than one year, or both; provided, if he shall pay promptly each week for such purpose to the court, or to a trustee named by such court, a sum to be fixed by it, sentence may be suspended. Such neglect, non-support or abandonment shall be deemed to have been committed in the county in which such minor may be at the time of such neglect, non-support or abandonment. Each day of such failure, neglect, or refusal shall constitute a separate offense, and the judge may order that, such person stand committed until such fines and costs are paid. SECTION 2. That said existing section 1655 of the General Code be and the same is hereby repealed. HARRY D. SILVER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. The sectional number in this act is in conformity to the General Code. C. C. CRABBE, Attorney General. CHARLES H. LEWIS, President of the Senate. Passed Feb. 19, 1925. Approved Feb. 28th, 1925. VIC DONAHEY, Governor. Filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Colum bus, Ohio, on the 2nd day of March A. D. 1925. 4B THAD H. BROWN, Secretary of State. |